Apocalypse
Open one box and you'll get $312.12 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,287 right now, so that means you're $974.98 short.
Cards inside
$312.12
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,287
TCGplayer market · from $1,465
Difference
-$974.98
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds at least one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 16, 2026
This is an average. A few very expensive cards pull it upward, so most individual boxes land below it. Opening one box is closer to a lottery ticket than an investment — the number below tells you whether the lottery is priced fairly.
$312.12 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$312.12
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$154.80
About 50% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
33%
Cards worth more by the thousand than listed
Two things separate the two figures. Fees take 10.75% commission plus 2.5% and $0.30 on every order, and postage on a single card runs about $1.10 — a bite a cheap card cannot absorb. And 33% of the box's value sits in cards below roughly $1.66, the point where a card is worth more thrown into a bulk lot at $0.04 a rare than listed, packed and posted. Selling the whole box to a buylist in one go pays less again.
Assumes one card per order, which is the cautious reading — a buyer taking several cards at once splits the fixed costs between them. Fees are TCGplayer Marketplace rates as of February 2026; bulk rates are current cash buylist.
We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.
-$974.98
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,287 a box you'd come up about $974.98 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$312.12
Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.
Every pack has a few fixed positions — a guaranteed rare, a wildcard, a foil. Here's what each one is worth across the whole box.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$4.47
Whole box
$160.92
$112.68 kept
Share
52%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.89
Whole box
$68.04
$1.44 kept
Share
22%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.08
Whole box
$38.88
$8.28 kept
Share
12%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.65
Whole box
$23.40
$19.44 kept
Share
7%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.40
Whole box
$14.40
$8.64 kept
Share
5%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.18
Whole box
$6.48
$4.32 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Yavimaya Coast
$395.19
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Pernicious Deed
$317.49
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Llanowar Wastes
$296.85
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Shivan Reef
$231.18
Battlefield Forge
$189.97
Phyrexian Arena
$183.13
Vindicate
$163.20
Cromat
$155.59
Caves of Koilos
$130.00
Goblin Ringleader
$80.90
44 cards. “Copies per box” is how many of that exact card you'd expect from one box on average — under 1 means you usually won't see it at all.
| Llanowar Wastes | rare | $30.08 | 0.82 |
| Yavimaya Coast | rare | $27.73 | 0.82 |
| Shivan Reef | rare | $26.51 | 0.82 |
| Phyrexian Arena | rare | $19.37 | 0.82 |
| Pernicious Deed | rare | $16.55 | 0.82 |
| Caves of Koilos | rare | $15.95 | 0.82 |
| Vindicate | rare | $12.12 | 0.82 |
| Battlefield Forge | rare | $10.43 | 0.82 |
| Cromat | rare | $5.45 | 0.82 |
| Lightning Angel | rare | $5.38 | 0.82 |
| Desolation Angel | rare | $3.44 | 0.82 |
| Spiritmonger | rare | $3.02 | 0.82 |
| Unnatural Selection | rare | $2.67 | 0.82 |
| Whirlpool Warrior | rare | $2.24 | 0.82 |
| Fervent Charge | rare | $2.07 | 0.82 |
| Mystic Snake | rare | $1.72 | 0.82 |
| Wild Research | rare | $1.70 | 0.82 |
| Guided Passage | rare | $0.96 | 0.82 |
| Legacy Weapon | rare | $0.78 | 0.82 |
| Ice Cave | rare | $0.74 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
